Ask Lemmy

I wasn't banned, but I rolled over after 3rd party apps were taken away on the day they stopped working. I only use the app for it so taking that away made it pretty easy to stop and no i wasnt going to use their own because they forced my hand. Apps were limited on lemmy at that time and had to wait like 4 months before the one i used to use was released, but it was worth it.

Reddit didn't ban me, I banned them.

After Reddit cut off api access to third-party apps, I left. Well, not right away, I did give RedReader a try for a month or so.

Banned? No. Other way around. I banned reddit from my devices after the API fiasco.

Banned for using a VPN for “ban evasion” but never had been banned before.

Appealed. No response.

I took that as a fuck off message.

I came here after the Reddit API mess but still posted on Reddit.

Got a temporary Reddit ban for a short statement saying Biden was caught genociding, then recently a permanent ban for saying the only way Trump is leaving office is if 100,000 people drag him out. "Inciting violence."

303,000 comment karma, 8,388 post karma, 14+ years.

Going corporate is never good.

I got 'soft banned'.

I had stopped commenting on Reddit back in 2022 after receiving warnings on similar topics. Continued to lurk and scroll. Now reddit has an uncloseable popup on web telling me to use the app. So I don't use reddit.

I didn't get banned. I left after the API change. I was already reducing use naturally, and what time I did still spend there was mostly to mod a very small niche hobby sub.

Without the mod tools I used before the API changes, plus the influx of MAGA-bots on reddit as a whole, I could longer mod the sub in a way the community asked for and that I was comfortable with. So I resigned, wished the remaining mods well, and went about my way.

There were other subs trying to go dark and impact reddit's advertising opportunities, and reddit was banning some of the mods doing that sort of thing. I decided even if reddit changed course, I was past the point I could ever come back to it.

Left reddit in the api blockage

Now I spend my days shit chatting with MLs

No ban, it just reached a threshold of enshittification where I said "enough is enough" and left.

I just stopped using it. No ban necessary.

I did get one or two temporary bans some years ago. First time was for criticizing their censorship. The second time was for sending the middle finger emoji to Spez.

I'm not going to go out of my way to delete my dead user or posts or anything. It's not my problem. Quite frankly, I just don't give a shit about their site.

Not banned but forced to use their shit app. They shut down Reddit is Fun, fuck them

Nah I was part of the app/api exodus.

I was sitewide banned for criticizing war thunder owner Gaijin on their own subreddit by saying they are biased to make russian vehicles always perform better than other nations at the same battle rating.

As far as I understood from others it's because subreddit mods have the power to sitewide ban... For some ridiculous reason. And in this case nobody at Reddit gave a damn or dared confront someone as big as Gaijin for someone as little as me.

Edit: at least I think that's why. Reddit bans are ambiguous as fuck. I remember trying to figure out why exactly but the message was similar to "banned because you broke tos" or some bullshit like that, with no link to an actual comment.

This is not a banned users refuge.

I got banned for making a comment about some hockey player needed attempted murder charges for using his skate blade to slash a rival players throat during a game. Blood spirting out all over the ice. I was banned for inciting violence. When I asked how what I said was inciting violence they perma banned me. I then came here.

This is why I'm wary of the lemmy user base, a combination of individuals who have been banned from reddit and/or think they're too good for reddit.

16 years, voluntarily killed my account.

I was "harassing" a climate change denier by @ing them on climate change related news. The dude refused to block me and just kept getting annoyed once or twice a day instead. 10/10 would get banned for antagonizing someone too stupid to use the block button again.

I didn't get banned, I left Reddit voluntarily when they announced that they were going to be increasing censorship on their site a year or so ago.

My reasoning was, 'It's only a matter of time before I *do* get banned for something stupid, so I might as well leave this site on my own while I'm still ahead.'

Me. I got shadow banned, without ever hearing why

I got perma banned because I said Nazis deserve to die.

I got a 7 day ban for criticizing the current administration. Then I responded with go fucj yourself to the mod team and got my ban.

Not sorry.

Reddit admins, go fuck yourselves

Not banned but they stopped letting me use bacon reader. so that was a deal breaker

Getting banned on reddit was how I first learned about lemmy, but tbh I see the same kind of shit-flinging here, and I go back and forth. There's a kind of smugness here about not being like reddit, but I think it just feels different because people who would be targets on reddit get to be flingers here.

I was permabanned in Elon's post-inauguration bloodbath, after 12 years, and a million Karma.

I know it sounds like sour grapes, but Reddit had already fallen far, and it's fallen much farther since. I was checking out a thread that came up in a search, and I had to endlessly scroll through puns, novelty accounts, more puns, trolls, tangents, etc. I gave up before ever getting to anything resembling the subject I had searched. Useless.

Banned just over a year ago due to rump and anti nazi comments with a few fuck Ford’s in there as well.

Not banned, just fed up.

Not banned, left voluntarily. The experience was so shitty I finally just said fuck it and left

Not banned, just bored.

I got banned for saying that nazis used to get punched at punk shows.

Not banned, I just like Communism, FOSS, and decentralization.

Never got banned but have been on threadiverse since the Apollo killing a few years ago. That was plenty for me to leave that site.

Main user got eventually banned for liking a comment, i was on a last warning and subsequent alts got caught by machine algorithms detecting uncharacteristic behavior for a new user or some links to the original banned user, like device ID or browser ID. All alts got shadowbanned after first few comments.

After few weeks of trying different approaches i gave up and decided it's more effort to try to bypass the detection algorithms than it's worth to browse reddit.

10 years in. Banned for suggesting that Trump’s immigration policy should keep the white trash South Africans out of America and not employed as ICE agents.